@ Davinao: i absolutely agree with your post and yes in principle i would like to be able to do just that, to think of it as a one off moment and he shouldnt loose everything because of that.
However you see this year i went through hell (breast cancer) and even at my lowest (think physically sick from morphine then chemotherapy, think unrationnal, emotional and paranoiaque) i did not endanger anyone's life (children and cyclists alike) because of my mood or because i was having a bad day.

When you are a grown up you have responsabilities. When ypu are a driver even more so.

In my book it is anexcusable. But i grant you that i may have been more forgiving a year ago... Maybe.

I won't draw conclusions on someone's home/work life and wouldn't hope a business is ruined based on this.

I would hope he is ashamed and has sought out the cyclist to apologise.

My husband was once raced down the street by a man in a car whilst he was cycling..he also didn't hand in his helmet camera and try and ruin the guy. They ended up shaking hands after both agreeing they had acted like prats...

Just because you can antagonise an angry person doesn't mean you ought (even if they are wearing a tight leather jacket)..

Davinao wrote:I think it might be wise idea if those posting here and encouraging a boycott of Brew had a brief pause to reflect on their own very worst emotional outbursts. Now imagine that your entire workplace were allowed to determine the future of your career (or role as a parent) based on that one hideous and probably a typical moment. His behaviour whilst appalling happened in isolation from his work and to set out to damage a person's livelihood because he lost the head in a road rage incident is - in my view - utterly wrong. He has been filmed and outed in a way most of us aren't when we are at our very worst.

1. the person who has been injured in Tooting was a cyclist who was hurt by a road vehicle

2. the person who had the 4x4 road vehicle driven at them by the owner of Brew was a cyclist

Until non-cyclists understand that cyclists face aggressive driving and threat of death on a regular basis then it'll always be hard for them to understand why cyclists can get so aggressive in return.

Do I think the cyclist was aggressive. Yes I do.

Do I think he was as aggressive as having a 4x4 driven at you, no I don't.

Proper little hate campaign starting now

Yes there is. He deserves it. He drove a 4x4 at the cyclist. Watch the video.

but boycotting his business

If one cyclist survives because other aggressive bullies don't drive their 4x4's at cyclists then that is a small price to pay

1. the person who has been injured in Tooting was a cyclist who was hurt by a road vehicle

2. the person who had the 4x4 road vehicle driven at them by the owner of Brew was a cyclist

Until non-cyclists understand that cyclists face aggressive driving and threat of death on a regular basis then it'll always be hard for them to understand why cyclists can get so aggressive in return.

Do I think the cyclist was aggressive. Yes I do.

Do I think he was as aggressive as having a 4x4 driven at you, no I don't.

Proper little hate campaign starting now

Yes there is. He deserves it. He drove a 4x4 at the cyclist. Watch the video.

but boycotting his business

If one cyclist survives because other aggressive bullies don't drive their 4x4's at cyclists then that is a small price to pay

I have watched the video. Its all being blown massively out of proportion. Let sleeping dogs lie and all that jazz, starting to feel sorry for the guy!

The Brew guy lost the plot, thats for sure but are you all honestly saying you've never got seriously angry before? Let he who is without sin etc.

As other posts have said we have no context to how this happened - just stand alone footage. They were clearly p+++ed off at each other, but how do you know that the cyclist hadn't completely antagonised the situation?
And am I the only one who thought the cyclist sounded even more bonkers than the driver? I'm not saying any of it is OK, but to campaign to ruin the guys life is off the chart. The power of the crowd here is really something to behold.

I hope the guy who owns Brew is able to say one day he's delighted to not have narrow-minded, uncompassionate, probably deluded customers such as the ones posting here campaigning for his downfall. Go and drink grey dishwater coffee in the American chain opposite if you like - I'm sure Brew will survive without you.

Sure its not pretty - but to start inferring his wife and family must live in fear is just appalling - and I would imagine libellous (although I'm not a lawyer, you might have guessed)

I think what is happening here are people jumping up and down in glee, relishing at someones distress (both of them) in order to avoid looking at what is lacking in their own lives

And as for "oooh, my husband would neeever do something like that"… The lady doth protest too much I believe.

The leather clad bully from brew used his vehicle as a weapon, if he used an axe to intimidate the cyclist he would be looking at a prison sentence and yet some people think his reckless behavour is acceptable. Last week I witnessed another leather clad lout on a motorbike lash out with his fist at a female cyclist Nasty vile people are nasty. A few weeks ago another scumbag kicked a woman pushing a buggy just because she accidentally walked into him. Maybe if he was driving a vehicle it would have been deemed acceptable.